Quote Originally Posted by Crystal_Raven View Post
Only one question, is this game harder on the GPU or CPU?
This game ate quite a few bad GPU's upon each version update. Version 1.0 killed GPU's. Version 2.0 killed GPU's, The DirectX11 killed GPU's.

By "killed" I mean it exposed bugs and poor optimization in the drivers that caused the cards to crash, and the game with it. The game has yet to kill a CPU that I'm aware of.

Version 1.0 and the DirectX9 versions of the current game are harder on the CPU due to lack of multi-threaded draw calls in DirectX9. So a 4Ghz CPU is still better than a 1.6Ghz CPU on the DX9 version. On DX11, multithreaded draw calls are supported, which means that a quad core CPU is better than a dual core cpu, where as under DX9 it wouldn't have mattered how many cores you had. So a 2.4Ghz Quad core may outperform a 2.8Ghz Dual core just by virtue of having that extra capacity.

But all things considered equal, the game is very hard on weak GPU's and any shortcuts taken by the GPU to squeeze extra performance or cut costs.